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Rethinking Sustainability : Power, Knowledge, and Institutions.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023738
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking SustainabilityDDC classification:
  • 333.7
LOC classification:
  • HC79
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Assessment of Sustainable Development -- Part 1. Institutional Perspectives on Sustainable Development -- 1. Sustainability and Systemic Issues in a New Era -- 2. The Case for the Global Commons -- 3. Development Connections: The Hedgerow Model -- 4. Wealth, Poverty, and Sustainable Development -- 5. Free Trade or Sustainable Trade? An Ecological Economics Perspective -- Part 2. Sustainability and Institutions in Practice -- Introduction to Part 2: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Development Practice -- 6. Stories People Tell: The Cultural Construction of Environmental Policy in Africa -- 7. Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Agriculture -- 8. Toward a Learning Paradigm: New Professionalism and Institutions for Agriculture -- 9. Does Food Security Require Local Food Systems? -- 10. Community, Ecology, and Landscape Change in Zambrana-Chacuey -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Assessment of Sustainable Development -- Part 1. Institutional Perspectives on Sustainable Development -- 1. Sustainability and Systemic Issues in a New Era -- 2. The Case for the Global Commons -- 3. Development Connections: The Hedgerow Model -- 4. Wealth, Poverty, and Sustainable Development -- 5. Free Trade or Sustainable Trade? An Ecological Economics Perspective -- Part 2. Sustainability and Institutions in Practice -- Introduction to Part 2: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Development Practice -- 6. Stories People Tell: The Cultural Construction of Environmental Policy in Africa -- 7. Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Agriculture -- 8. Toward a Learning Paradigm: New Professionalism and Institutions for Agriculture -- 9. Does Food Security Require Local Food Systems? -- 10. Community, Ecology, and Landscape Change in Zambrana-Chacuey -- Contributors -- Index.

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development.

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